Blackouts will be intentionally caused to protect supply networks
Germany could experience temporary and regionally limited blackouts, especially in the months of January and February, according to warnings from the president of the Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief (BBK), Ralph Tiesler. “We must expect blackouts to occur this winter, and by that I mean regional and temporary power outages,” says Tiesler in advance statements by Sunday’s Welt am Sonntag. The cause will not be only the shortage of energy, but the punctual, precise and temporary cut of the networks by the responsible companies to protect them and avoid a threat to the entire supply.
“The risk increases especially in January and February, so we assume that from then on there will be interruptions in the electricity supply at some points and for a certain time,” Tiesler points out in the conservative Sunday newspaper. The president of the BBK also criticizes the fact that the public administration is not sufficiently prepared to deal with possible blackouts. A part of the municipalities and authorities are “exemplarily prepared”, with concrete plans to ensure supply with local generators, but “others have it worse because they are not sufficiently prepared. There are big differences, “says the expert.
Almost at the same time, the “Save energy” initiative of the association of companies that store gas and hydrogen in Germany (INES), offers positive and optimistic data. According to his analysis, this country will overcome this winter and the next one without difficulties, even if the gas supply from Russia continues to be cut off as up to now. If “extremely low temperatures” are not recorded in the coming months, a shortage will be “very unlikely,” says the report, which highlights that gas tanks in this country are more than 99% full and will be filled again. without difficulty before the winter of the following year, although in the one that is about to begin they are completely emptied.
The study presents three scenarios with a normal winter, a warm one and a very cold third and concludes that the leading European economy will be able to avoid rationing the gas necessary to feed industry, electricity generation and private consumer heating. “The filling of the gas tanks has led to the fact that we can foreseeably get through the coming winter well,” said the head of INES, Sebastian Bleschke.
Germany is spending billions of euros to deal with the current energy crisis that affects a good part of the European continent. Given the interruption of the Russian gas supply, the executive of the Federal Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, is committed to the liquefied gas that is supplied by sea and to reduce the generation of electricity with gas plants as much as possible, he has extended the life of several thermal power plants coal and nuclear power plants. The weather also supports these efforts, as the mild autumn temperatures have delayed the start of operation of the heaters.
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